Mayday, like Love Parade, is one of the oldest and most reputed electronic music festivals in Germany, having its debut on 1991. Despite the name, Mayday festivals date oscilates between 30 April and December (these being called Winter Mayday). After 2000, the Winter Mayday started being played in Katowice, Poland and in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Each Mayday has a theme composed by Members Of Mayday, DJs WestBam and Klaus Jankuhn. The popularity of those "anthems" (with a 2001 album named "Anthems of the Decade 1991-2001") is very high, some agree it already reached cult status. Live performances (now commonly including three areas) featured high profile names such as Moby, Aphex Twin, The Prodigy, Jeff Mills, Carl Cox, Paul Van Dyk or Dr. Motte.
List of Mayday events
Attendance figures are estimated.
- Best Of House And Techno
- 14 December 1991
- Attendance: 5000
- Live Acts and DJs: 18
- 30.04.1992 - Mayday 92 Köln
- Forward Ever, Backward Never
- 12 December 1992
- Attendance: 7000 in Berlin
- Live Acts and DJs: 22
- Judgment Day
- 30 April 1993
- Attendance: 16000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 28
- The Religion
- 11 December 1993
- Attendance: 6000 in Berlin
- Live Acts and DJs: 21
- Rave Olympia
- 30 April 1994
- Attendance: 24000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 35
- Raving Society
- 25-26 November 1994
- Attendance: 32000 in Berlin (figures indicate the sum of both days)
- Live Acts and DJs: 28
- Reformation
- 30 April 1995
- Attendance: 22000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 34
- The Great Coalition
- 16 December 1995
- Attendance: 18000 in Frankfurt
- Live Acts and DJs: 42
- The Day X
- 30 April 1996
- Attendance: 20000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 40
- Life On Mars
- 14 December 1996
- Attendance: 8000 in Berlin
- Live Acts and DJs: 26
- Sonic Empire
- 30 April 1997
- Attendance: 18000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 42
- Save The Robots
- 30 April 1998
- Attendance: 20000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 35
- Soundtropolis
- 30 April 1999
- Attendance: 20000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 37
- Datapop
- 30 April 2000
- Attendance: 22000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 37
- Mayday Polska
- 10 November 2000
- Attendance: 9000 in Katowice
- Live Acts and DJs: 19
- Soundtropolis
- 30 April 2000
- Attendance: 20000 in Dortmund
- Live Acts and DJs: 37
- 10 in 01
- 30 April 2001
- In Dortmund
- Culture Flash
- 30 April 2002
- In Dortmund
- Troopa Of Tomorrow
- 30 April 2003
- In Dortmund
- Team X-Treme
- 30 April 2004
- In Dortmund
- Prototypes
- 30 April 2005
- In Dortmund
- Worldclub
- 30 April 2006
- In Dortmund
- New Euphoria
- 30 April 2007
- In Dortmund
